Rape suspect tries to pick up S.F. cop

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A man wanted on rape charges was arrested after flirting with a uniformed female police officer on patrol in San Francisco, police said Monday.

The officer and another woman in blue were parked at Third Street and Revere Avenue on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. when the 26-year-old man approached the police cruiser’s passenger window and tried to strike up a conversation.

The man was “obviously enamored” and asked the officer if she was married or available, said Capt. Paul Chignell, who runs the department’s Bayview Station.

The officer said she wasn’t available but asked for the man’s name, which he happily provided. As soon as he became discouraged enough to step away from the car, the officers ran a records check and came up with a no-bail warrant for rape issued in Hayward.

When the two officers called to the man to stop, he may have hoped it was to return his affections. Instead, he got a dose of tough love.

The man, a Bayview resident, was arrested and booked on the warrant. Police are not releasing his name.